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DC will pay $50,000 to man detained while protesting guard patrol with 'Star Wars' song, record says

A settlement document reveals the District of Columbia has agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a resident who accused police officers of illegally detaining him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone

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Protester who played Darth Vader’s theme around National Guard reaches court settlement

O'Hara sued the district claiming police officers violated his First Amendment rights to free speech

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For some Americans, the Vietnam War is still felt today

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Jeanie Jacobs Huffman has not lost hope of bringing her father home

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In a new era of campus upheaval, the 1970 Kent State shootings show the danger of deploying troops to crush legal protests

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed his intention, if elected to a second term, to use the U.S. armed forces to suppress domestic protests. The New York Times reports that Trump’s allies are marshaling legal arguments to justify using National Guard or active-duty military troops for crowd control.

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She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who now teaches there reflects on that day and offers lessons for protesters now.

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Pentagon condemns Ohio National Guard head pushing NewsNation reporter before press conference arrest

Body-camera footage shows that a cable news reporter pushed to the ground and handcuffed while covering a news conference in Ohio had just had a heated confrontation with the leader of the state’s national guard

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Police: Reporter pushed down, arrested had refused to leave

Police in Ohio say the arrest of a broadcast reporter who was pushed to the ground and handcuffed while covering a news conference came after he got into an argument with the head of the state’s National Guard and refused to leave

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Union Station: Checking in on public-sector union cases appealed to the Supreme Court

Note: In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be publishing Union Station on Nov. 25. The next edition of Union Station will arrive on Dec. 2.

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Union Station: Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging FLRA jurisdiction over Ohio National Guard collective bargaining dispute

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a Sixth Circuit ruling that the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) has jurisdiction to regulate a collective bargaining dispute between the Ohio National Guard and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). AFGE is the federal employee union representing…

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PACT Act providing health care to burn pit victims caps decades of denied benefits for veterans

During a 13-month stint in Iraq that began in 2006, Heath Robinson served as a medic with the Ohio National Guard. Like thousands of others soldiers stationed there, he was routinely exposed to toxic smoke emanating from what are known as burn pits.

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Beau Biden’s death and the real crime of Boebert’s heckling. Could this finally be the reckoning for burn pits?

The issue of burn pits was given more airtime than voting rights, gun violence and abortion in Biden’s SOTU address. Two days later, the House passed sweeping burn pits legislation. Rachel Sharp hears from veterans, lawmakers and advocates about whether America’s sick and dying soldiers are finally being heard

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